RECAP: Shootout goals by Pavel Datsyuk and Todd Bertuzzi gave the Detroit Red Wings a win over the Wild in front of 18,912 Sunday at the Xcel Energy Center.

Niklas Backstrom made 38 saves for the Wild.

Nicklas Lidstrom scored Detroit’s lone regulation goal early in the third period to break a 0-0 tie, but less than four minutes later Brent Burns sprung Martin Havlat on a breakaway to tie it up.

MEANING: The one point was enough to vault the Wild from 10th place in the Western Conference into the top half. They were sixth after the afternoon games.

QUOTE: “I wasn’t trying to think too much. I was thinking too much the other night when I got a great pass from ‘Brodzy’ and I ended up behind the net.” — Havlat commenting on scoring the 500th point of his NHL career Sunday after missing a recent scoring chance after a set-up from Kyle Brodziak.

ETC: The matinee game, the first Wild home game ever nationally televised on NBC, was the 1,000th NHL game for Bertuzzi.

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